Sampradaya Bhajan Groups in the U.K
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E-Version 1.0 1 2 ्ी राध े कृ ण Śrī Rādhe Kṛṣṇa ्ी गुचरररु मजरी Śrī Guru Charitra Manjari Salutation to the Worshipful Gurus of Dakṣiṇa Bhārat Bhajan Sampradāyam Shri Radha Madhav Kalyana Mahotsav 23/24 November 2019 London, UK Shri Radha Madhav Kalyana Mahotsav (UK) November 2019 Electronic version at www.radhakalyanam.uk 4 Contents Shri Ganesha Stuti 5 Shrī Dakṣiṇāmūrti Stuti 6 Bhagavan Shrī Sankarar Stuti 7 Blessing From Shri Kanchi Mutt 8 Foreword 9 Preface 13 Guru Charitra 19 Sadguru Shri Bodhendra Swamigal 21 Shri Shridhara Ayyaval 25 Shri Maruthanallur Sadguru Swamigal 29 Shri Narayana Teerthar 33 Shri Jayadeva 37 Shri Annamacharyar 41 Shri Vijayagopala Yathi Swamigal 45 Shri Bhadrachala Ramadasar 49 Shri Purandaradasar 53 Shri Sadashiva Brahmendral 57 Shri Raghavendra Swamigal 61 Saint Shri Tyagaraja 65 Shri Muthuswamy Deekshitar 69 Shri Shyama Shastrigal 73 Shri Gopalakrishna Bharatiyar 77 Shri Oottukkadu Venkata Kavi 81 Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 85 Shri Mira Bai 89 Shri Kabir Das 93 Shri Surdas 97 Sadhu Shri Tukaram 101 Sant Shri Namdev 105 Shri Goswami Tulsidas 109 Shri Gnananda Giri 113 5 Dedicated to the Mahātmas propagating the virtues of Sanātana Dharma through Dakṣiṇa Bhārath Sampradāya Bhajans and by their virtuous lives and teachings for the welfare of others. 6 Shri Ganesha Stuti श्ाबरधरु ं रिण ंु शरशि् ं चतरु जमुु |् रसन िदन ं ्ायते सि् ु रि्ोप शातय े || मषकू िाहन मोदक हत, चामर क् ु रिलरबत सरू | िामन ूप महवरे पर,ु रि् रिनायक पाद नमत े || गजानन ं रतग्ारदसू रिते ं करपथजबफलसारु ररितम |् उमासतु ं शोकरिनाशकार् ं नमारम रि्वरे पाद पकजम ||् जय रसरिरिनायक म्ू तकी जय ् śuklāmbaradharaṃ viṣzṇuṃ śaśivarṇaṃ caturbhujam | prasanna vadanaṃ dhyāyet sarva vighnopa śāntaye || mūṣaka vāhana modaka hasta, cāmara karṇa vilambita sūtra | vāmana rūpa maheśvara putra, vighna vināyaka pāda namaste || gajānanaṃ bhūtagaṇādisevitaṃ kapitthajambuphalasāra bhakṣitam | umāsutaṃ śokavināśakāraṇaṃ namāmi vighneśvara pāda paṅkajam || jaya siddhivināyaka mūrtikī jay 7 Shrī Dakṣiṇāmūrti Stuti िटरिटरपसमीप े ररमरागू े रनषण्मू ् सकल मरनजनानाु ं ्ानदातारमारात |् रररिनु गुमीशु ं दरि्ाम्तू दिे ं जनन मर् दःख्ेददि ं नमारम || vaṭaviṭapisamīpe bhūmibhāge niṣaṇṇaṃ sakala munijanānāṃ jñānadātāramārāt | tribhuvana gurumīśaṃ dakṣiṇāmūrti devaṃ janana maraṇa dukhacchedadakṣaṃ namāmi || 8 Bhagavan Shrī Sankarar Stuti अ्ानातगहनपरततानु आम् रि्ोपदशे ःै रात ंु लोकान रिदिरशखा् ताप पापयमानान |् यतामौन ं िटरिटरपनो मलतोू रनपतती श्ोम्तचररतूु रिनु े शकराचाय ु ूप || ्रतु ्रतरतृ परा्ाऩामु आलयम् कु्ालयम् ् नमारम रगि्ाद शकरम लोकशकरम् ् ajñānantargahanapatitān ātmā vidyopadeśaiḥ trātuṃ lokān bhavadavaśikhā tāpa pāpacyamānān | tyaktvāmaunaṃ vaṭaviṭapino mūlato niṣpatantī śambhormūrtiścarati bhuvane śaṅkaḥrācārya rūpa || śrutismṛti purāṇānāmālayaṃ karuṇālayaṃ namāmi bhavadpāda śaṅkaḥraṃ lokaśaṅkaḥram || 9 Blessing From Shri Kanchi Mutt 10 Foreword Kalaimamamani Udaiyalur Shri Dr. Kalyanaraman Ram Ram n Kaliyuga, chanting the Bhagavan Nama is the easiest way to get the blessings of the Almighty. IThe most enchanting way of chanting the Bhagavan Nama is thro ugh Bhajan, the singing of divine names jointly with everyone. There are so many types of Bhajans to sing generations are essential dharma for all of us. the glory of God and depending on the traditions followed in diferent regions of I appreciate the London Shri Radha Madhava India, the format and method of performing K a l y a n a M a h o t s a v C o m m i t t e e f o r t h e i r s i n c e r e the Bhajans vary; however the core essence eforts to propagate Namasankirtanam in the of inculcating Bhakti remains the same. The UK. Following the grand success of Shri ‘Dakṣiṇa Bhārath Sampradāya Bhajan’ is Radha Madhava Kalyanam Mahotsav in the the very long and glorious tradition, being year 2018, the Committee has organized the followed by many Bhagavathas for the past second Mahotsav this year (23/24 November 400 years. It is a living testimony for the 2019) bringing a large Diaspora of Indian positive impact of Bhajan - bringing the communities in the UK, promoting Bhakti communities together to inculcate devotion and harmony. and harmony. As part of the celebrations, I am pleased Marudhanallur Shri Sadguru Swamigal to note the release of this book ‘Shri Guru (Tamil Nadu) is greatly respected for his Charitra Manjari’ narrating the lives of initiatives and eforts for invigorating the the great Gurus, who are the illuminating ‘Dakṣiṇa Bhārath Sampradāya Bhajan'. This beacons for the followers of Dakṣiṇa Bhārath he did by tirelessly travelling across India and Sampradāya Bha jan. I am also delighted collecting many compositions from various that an electronic-version, ‘Dakṣiṇa Bhārat great composers irrespective of regional Sampradāya Bhajan Manjari and Deva languages diferences. Kalyāna Māla’, as a compilation of many well known, and also a number of rare Bhajan The Dakṣiṇa Bhārath Sampradāya Bhajan songs are to be made available to help the paddati is not only for the systematically aspirants of Bhajans. May God bless them propagation of Namasankirtanam but also to continue this great service to the humanity. for preserving our culture for the beneits of our younger generations. Preserving our Radhe Krishna heritage and presenting well to our future Udaiyalur Kalyanaraman 26 October 2019 11 12 13 14 Preface iterally, the phrase ‘Dakṣiṇa Bhārath Sampradāya Bhajan’ translates to ‘South In dian Tradition of Chorus-singing’, the context being the singing the glory of God. However an Linsightful understanding of what it really means, and what signiicance it ofers for our well-being and spiritual growth, requires a deeper inquiry. This we do briely. The need and the relevance of God eventually world, to return right dividends to the doer in become the fact of one’s life, that’s for sure due course. According to Vedas, God assures - although, thanks to the core principles this balance through enforcing the Laws- of Sanātana Dharmā, such an initiation to of-Karmā; so one must deem the outcome of divinity is imbibed by many of us right from one’s action as the gift of god, Ishvar-prashād our birth. However freewill is a precious only. That is why it is imperative that we gift and so we all exercise our freedom to involve God in all our afairs of life and seek experiment in our lives before arriving at the the grace of God for our endeavours. need of constant communion with God. That is precisely when, the spirit and signiicance of For the gifted few, even such an approach to Bhajan truly shines through. To understand life, as a perpetual journey of desire, actions this, we need to understand the purpose of and attainments will eventually prove to be life itself. a very depressing deinition. To them, such a life-cycle would mean an entrapment, a An interpretation of life is that it is a sojourn mixture of happiness and grief, tossed with driven by goals or attainments, one after an enduring touch of fear! Vedas call this as another, and of some sorts. To attain any samsārā, a state of per petual lack of fulilment. desired object, one needs to work for it. This When one recognizes the grave danger of is endorsed by the Vedas, the scriptures of the situation and yearns for freedom, Vedas Sanātana Dharmā. Actions driven by the redeine life as a ‘divine-play’, in which one desires are known as karmā and the scriptures must happily take part, without being taken- provide the guidance for righteous karmā to apart by its ordeals. This is only possible when attain the objects of desire in life here and one realizes the self as ‘ātma’, the unattached hereinafter. supreme consciousness, forever blissful and indwelling in all as the very essence of God. The scriptures also show that one’s action alone cannot be the sole determinant of For such a person, there is noth ing then to the outcome. It is because once an action is be attained as she remains forever fulilled. completed, the course of its progress and the She has no more fear as she sees herself in all. result are not in one’s control. In the world There is only love. Subsequently, her actions of actions, therefore is a need of a controller, in the world are not deemed as karmā but as while sustaining the equilibrium of the kriyā, free of any binding impediments. 15 Only to impart these three important to represent the otherwise incomprehensible potentialities for human evolution, Vedas are God. Known as ‘Shabda-Brahman’ or when structured into three parts. rendered musically as ‘Nāda-Brahman’, this approach trains us to capture the ininite The irst-part known as Karma-Kānda potentialities of God by merely hearing the elaborates the rituals for perfecting our ac- representative forms of sound. But ordinarily tions, the second part as Upāsana-Kānda, we require some ‘meaning’ to a ‘sound’ for it the means for divine contemplation and the to make an impact. When one hears the word path of devotion and inally the third-part as ‘lotus’ the attributes of lotus come to mind. Jnāna-Kānda for imparting the supreme truth of the Self; this it does, by steering towards To support this level of understanding, Vedas the divine inquiry of the Self, the World and attach many divine attributes including ‘rupā’ God (Jivā, Jagat and Ishvarā).